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[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\\
'''Seventh Doctor Era'''\\
'''Season 24:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani 1]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E2ParadiseTowers 2]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E3DeltaAndTheBannermen 3]] | '''4'''\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E1TheMysteriousPlanet <<< Season 23]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Season 25 >>>]]''']]-]]]
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->Written by Ian Briggs\\
Directed by Chris Clough\\
'''Production code:''' 7G\\
'''Air dates:''' 23 November - 7 December 1987\\
'''Number of episodes:''' 3



'''Production code:''' 7G




Written by Ian Briggs. This three-episode serial first aired from November 23 to December 7, 1987.

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The first episode ends with an infamous LiteralCliffhanger, as the Doctor climbs past a safety railing and dangles himself over a precipice for no apparent reason. (The intention was that he'd found his way blocked by a rockfall -- which isn't obvious in the episode as aired -- and was trying to reach a path that crossed the cliff face -- which also isn't obvious until Glitz helps him down onto it at the beginning of the following episode. Much later on, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], it was finally explained that it was one of the many attempted interferences of the Great Intelligence, and a Clara had a hand in saving him.)

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The first episode ends with an infamous LiteralCliffhanger, as the Doctor climbs past a safety railing and dangles himself over a precipice for no apparent reason. (The intention was that he'd found his way blocked by a rockfall -- which isn't obvious in the episode as aired -- and was trying to reach a path that crossed the cliff face -- which also isn't obvious until Glitz helps him down onto it at the beginning of the following episode. Much later on, [[spoiler: in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], it was finally explained that it was one of the many attempted interferences of the Great Intelligence, and a Clara had a hand in saving him.)
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Subverted with Glitz's former crewman Pudovkin when he comes to kill Glitz; the Doctor initially diagnoses him with this, but it turns out he's just really pissed at the mistreatment Glitz has been doling out to him and the other crewmembers.



* DragonHoard: So the rumours have it.

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* DragonHoard: So the rumours have it. It turns out to be the Dragonfire.



* HumanPopsicle: Kane.

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* HumanPopsicle: Kane.Kane has to occasionally enter a chamber that lowers his body down to 193 degrees Celsius in order to stay alive.


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* TooDumbToLive:
** Kracauer had some plan for killing Kane. Turning up the temperature was one thing, but apparently he never figured out what to do other than stand there dumbly if Kane tried to kill him before the heat finished him off.
** Also the dragon, who after 3000 years avoiding Kane's goons, decides to walk directly into the line of fire of two of them.

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